Alex Cigale's poems have appeared in Colorado, Green Mountains, St. Petersburg, Tampa reviews, Gargoyle, Redactions, and 32 Poems, and online in Drunken Boat and McSweeney's. His translations of Russian poetry can be found in Crossing Centuries: the New Generation in Russian Poetry, Brooklyn Rail InTranslation, Modern Poetry in Translation, and PEN America. A monthly column of translations of Russian Silver Age poets is on-line at Danse Macabre. He was born in Chernovsty, Ukraine and lives in New York City.